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Reading about the history of chocolate without giving in to tingling tastebuds and a growing restlessness to hear the unwrapping of a chocolate bar, is about as difficult as not thinking of an elephant precisely when you’re told to not think of an elephant. It requires self- restraint to the point of insanity, especially when…

Our people, music and food are all similar to each other, and yet we are two different nations: India and Pakistan. I have seen numerous documentaries and have met so many people who have shared their stories, and when I do, I always feel a sense of belonging. The partition seems to have taken the…

When I was going through the history of pancakes and finding the routes of it, I stumbled upon a book by Sumayya Usmani, Pakistani-born cookery writer, blogger and teacher based in Scotland. Her book Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration From the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea had a recipe of Rishiki which is a…

Curry is something which we think of as indigenous to India and Pakistan. But did you know that the English love their curry so much so that they even have National Curry Week? Where did this curry come from? Can we Indians claim that it originated on our land? Every household in India will have…